Match scratcher



May 8, 1923. 1,454,445 P. MCCUAIG v MATCH SCRATCHER Original Filed Nov. 7, 1919 INVENTOR Patented May 8, i923.

MATCH SCRATCHER.

Application filed November 7, 1919, Serial No. 336,500. Renewed fictober 21, 1922. 1 Serial No. 596,167.

T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, Pnrnn MOC AIG, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident Fort William, in the .L rovince of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Match Scratchers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to match scratcher; and it is the object of the invention to pro ide a match scratcher which is novel and cheap inconstruction and efli ient in use, to a support.

With the foregoing object in view I have shown an embodiment in the drawing accompanying and formi g apart of this specification in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a portion of a vehicle wheel showing my invention applied to the spoke of the Wheel.

Figure 2 is an enlarged. cross sectional view of a spoke of a'vehicle wheel with my invention applied thereto to show the mannor of removably attaching the game.

Figure 3 is a cross sectional view, in per spective, of the match scratcher to illustrate the arrangement of the match scratching surface and beads or ribs to guide a match along said surface; and

Figure 4 is a plan view of my improved match scratcher.

Similar characters of reference designate like parts throughout the different views of the drawing.

in carrying out the invention I provide a sheet 5 of suitable metallic material, such aluminum, and arrange said plate with a series of'rizlges to extend longitudinally of the plate upon which to scratch a match to ignite the same, and preferably consisting of rows of corrugations (5, shown in the present instance as two in number. At opposite ends and bet -ween adjacent rows of corrugations, and to extend beyond the rows of corrugations, the material of the plate is headed or ribbed, as shown at 7, these ieads being arranged to extend somewhat above the corrugations or ribs, as clearly shown in Figures 2 and 3, to serve as guides and which may be remoiably attached extending ears or lugs, these lugs being preferably' arranged to extend from opposite sides and at opposite ends of the plate, as shown at 9 and 10, and being perforated for the engagement of means to secure the scratcher to a support.

in the drawing I have shown the invention as particularly adapted for application to the spoke 11 of a vehicle wheel 12, although it will be obvious that it may be attached to other supports. The material of which the scratcher is madeiis of a thickness and nature to be readily pliable, and to apply the same to the spoke of a vehicle wheel the plate is longitudinally bent upon itself to conform to such spoke, and is secured thereto by bending the ears or lugs 9 and. 10' as shown in Figure 2 and passing a bolt 13 through the perforations in said lugs. Y

Having thus described my invention, 1 claim: 7

As a new article of manufacture a match scratcher, comprising a pliable metallic sheet having aibody portion substantially of rectangular shape arranged with perforated lugs extending oppositely from the sides at the ends of the body portion, a series of rows of corrugations extending longitudinally of the body portion, beads at opposite ends and intermediate the rows of and to extend above the corrugations to serve as guides, and fastening means to engage the lug perforations of a pair of opposite lugs .to attach the scratcher to an object, for the purpose specified.

Signed at Fort William, in the Province of Ontario and Dominion of Canada, October, 1919.

PETER neonate. 

